Since the previous post was about M.J and his death, I thought it was befitting that I add this poem I found while surfing the net.
Mary Oliver, White Flowers
Last night
in the fields
I lay down in the darkness
to think about death,
but instead I fell asleep,
as if in a vast and sloping room
filled with those white flowers
that open all summer,
sticky and untidy,
in the warm fields.
When I woke
the morning light was just slipping
in front of the stars,
and I was covered
with blossoms.
I don’t know
how it happened—
I don’t know
if my body went diving down
under the sugary vines
in some sleep-sharpened affinity
with the depths, or whether
that green energy
rose like a wave
and curled over me, claiming me
in its husky arms.
I pushed them away, but I
didn’t rise.
Never in my life had I felt so plush,
or so slippery,
or so
resplendently empty.
Never in my life
had I felt myself so near
that porous line
where my own body was done with
and the roots and the stems and the flowers
began. (Oliver, 1992, pp. 58-59).
Lovely piece by Mary
Oilver linking nature and death. I love how she mentioned not knowing what happened. The "I don't know"s and the phrase about nearing the "porous line" just brings the reader closer to the idea.
Please note that this is not an
emo post even though it mentions about death, I just got bitten by a tiny literature bug.
Stanley, part of our SBS clique( Joleen, Lavin and marc)
Fish if you're reading this, please remember that you need to accumulate good krama. :P
